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The Moral Gatekeeper? Moderation and Deletion of User-Generated Content in a Leading News Forum
2018
Media and Communication
Participatory formats in online journalism offer increased options for user comments to reach a mass audience, also enabling the spreading of incivility. As a result, journalists feel the need to moderate offensive user comments in order to prevent the derailment of discussion threads. However, little is known about the principles on which forum moderation is based. The current study aims to fill this void by examining 673,361 user comments (including all incoming and rejected comments) of the
doi:10.17645/mac.v6i4.1493
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